Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 9849, Zachariah Dodds, New York

SERVICE
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New York
Dodds, Zachariah
S. 9849
CONTENTS
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New York 28.707
Zachariah Dodds
Public Library Dutcher in the State of New York was a Port 1st Capt. in the Company commanded by Captain Dubois of the Regiment commanded by Col. Clinton in the New York for 6 months Private 6 months Corporal
scribed on the Roll of New York the rate of 42 Dollars — Bonds for annual commence on the 4th day of March, 1834.
Certificate of Pension issued the 10th day of June 1834 and sent to Claimant Euba New York
due to the 4th of March '34 $126.00 semi-annual allowance ending Sep r 4 '34 - 21.00
$147.00
{ Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832.
Recorded by Sam l H. Page Clerk Book C Vol. 4 Page 97

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Claimant.

State of New York Albany County P.S.
On this 12 th day of Feby 1834 personally appeared before in Open Court before Asa Saffern Daniel Gillman & Josiah White judges of the court of common pleas in and for the said county of Albany Now sitting Zachariah Dodd a resident of the town of Cuba in the said county of Albany and state of New York aged Twenty Nine years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of congress passed June 7 th 1832.
That he enlisted a private in the army of the United States in the for part of the month of May 1775 at Iwa- go in the county of Duchess with Elias Benschoten of the same town for six months in the state troops of the state of New York and served under the follow- ing named officers under circumstances as follows
Immediately after he enlisted he was mustered at the said town of Iwago under the command of Capt Lewis Dubois and Lieut. Elias Benschoten and marched to P'keepsie and from there went by water to Albany where his company joined Col. James Clintons Regiment From Albany marched to Ticonderoga and then by water went to St Johns. The siege of that place had been commenced before he arrived there. His com- pany was stationed on the east side of the River Sorelle where they erected a Battery and shortly afterwards was ordered to Snydale where he was stationed at the time fort St. Johns surrendered
Soon after that his company went to Laprairie and again joined his regiment. From there crossed the river St Lawrence with his Regt and went down to Montreal. At which place his term of enlistment having nearly expired he again enlisted in the same Regt for a corporal for six months Under James Clinton Colonel - Elias Benschoten Capt and Albert Pauling or Spauling Lieut -

his former Captain, Lewis Steele being promoted to a Major - Soon after that time went by water down the St Lawrence to DeChambreau and from thence by Land 18 Miles to Quebec. Was stationed there till the latter part of April or the fore part of May '76 when his regt. left that place and went back to Albany on nearly the same route in which he has before described and in the fore part of June '76 he was discharged at Albany.
The whole of this service amounted to one year and about fifteen days viz 5 months and 25 days as a private and six months and twenty days as a corporal during which time he was not employed in any civil pursuit.
During this service he was in three several battles or engagements first at the siege of St Johns secondly at the battle of Longall and thirdly at the siege of Quebec - When Montgomery fell his company was, he thinks the next in rear. Remembers to have seen Cols Wyncop and Van Scuyck at St Johns and other places and Generals Campbell and Wooster at Quebec.
From the first day of January '76 till he was discharged he did duty as a sergeant but as he is not sure his name was enrolled as such he only claims as a corporal for that time as above stated.
And he further states that in the same month of June '76 he again enlisted in the service of the United States (as he considers it) at Albany for nine months under Captain John Tilsman of Albany as a Battalion man. Thinks his company belonged to Col Harmanus Schuyler's Regiment of Battalion men in the service of the State of New York - Marched to Lake George where his Captain took possession of the government boats at that place and continued in the service of the American army on that lake till it was frozen over and then was put at work on land making Lumber & for the

Army till his term of enlistment expired in March 1777
And further that on the the first day of April 1777 he again enlisted in the same Regt. of Batavian men at Albany for nine months under Captain Van Every who immediately took possession of the government boats assigned to him between Albany and half moon point on the Hudson continued on that station as a Batavian man under capt Van Every till Burgoyne surren- -dered in October and then was detached from the water service and sent as a teamster to carry British prisoners to Boston - After his return from Boston he continued as a teamster drawing wood iron coal &c to supply a shop at Albany called the Continental Shop, his term of enlist- -ment expired on the first day of January 98 at which time he was discharged
And further this deponent saith that by reason of old age and consequent loss of memory he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service in his first and second engagements but according to the best of his recollection he served not less than the periods mentioned below and in the following grades:- For five months and twenty five Days I served as a private - For six months and twenty days I served as a corporal which added to one year and six months I served as a Batavian man makes in the whole one year eleven months and twenty five Days I served as a private and for six months and twenty days I served as a corporal during which time I was not engaged in any civil pursuit and for such services I claim a pension
Immediately after he was discharged as above stated from the Batavian service on the first of Jany 1798 he went to Claverack thirty miles below Albany on the Hudson river staid there till spring

then went to Berkshire County in the state of Massachusetts worked there till over one year then Went to Connecticut and staid there probably one year then to N. York State one year then to Vermont and in the year 1782 moved to this state and has lived in this state ever since and lives in the town of Cuba as stated above
He has no documentary evidence nor does he know of any person who can testify to his service
But he further states that in the year 1819 or '20 he made an effort to procure a pension - at which time he procured an affidavit from James Morris and Abraham Pool then of the city of Troy stating that they knew him and were fellow soldiers with him at the siege of Quebec - This affidavit was duly attested before Justice Wilson of the city of Troy N. York and certified genuine by the clerk of the county and then sent to the city of Washington -
In answer to it the Secretary Calhoun stated said there was a legal objection to his claim because he had not served over three months in any one engagement - He then presented his claim to Congress which was referred to the proper committee which made a report in his favor but the session closing soon after - it was among the unfinished business and he did not again renew his claim
He knows of no reason why these papers and communications are not yet on file at the secretary's office in Washington
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever the present to a pension or annuity and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state - sworn and acknowledged his subscription the day and year aforesaid
Lacharide Dods

State of New York Albany County ss
On this 21 st day of June 1834 personally appeared before me John Purvis a justice of the peace of the said county of Albany at my office in the town of Cuba in the county aforesaid Abraham Folsom a clergyman of the said town and David Purinton David How of the same place & John Burt of Knight who being duly sworn according to law do certify and declare that they are acquainted with Zachariah Dods now present and who has subscribed the above declaration - that they and each of them believe him to be seventy- -five years of age - that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution and that they concur in that opinion - And further these deponents say that from the best of their knowledge and belief he is without any property and quite unable to procure testimony as to his credibility in our county courts which is held about 20 miles from where he resides
Abraham Folsom B.D. David Purinton
Sworn and subscribed the day and year above said before me John Purvis Justice of the Peace And I the said justice do hereby certify that the above named Abraham Folsom is a clergyman as stated above and David Purinton David How & John Burt to me personally known to be credible persons and their testimony is entitled to credit Dated at Cuba as aforesaid John Purvis Justice
State of New York
Albany County ss
I Hudson W Sherman clerk of the said county do hereby certify that John Purvis before whom the above affidavit purports to have been taken is a justice of the peace in Cuba in this county that I am acquainted with his hand writing and that his signature is in his own proper hand writing ac- cording to the best of my knowledge and belief witness my hand and seal of office this 2 nd day of February 1834 M c Shane Clk

And the said court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the war department and hearing his answers as herein after described that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states
To the first question "where and when were you born?" his answer is that he don't know where he was born - his parents were in the British army under General Braddock and his father was killed in the same battle with that officer and he was told by his mother that he was then two years old - He was brought up in Chester County Pennsylvania
To the second question - his answer is that he has no record of his age - To the third - He says he was living in the town of Swago Dutchess County N.Y. when he first went into the service by a voluntary enlistment - and since the first of January '78 which was the time he left the service he has never lived in any other place than those stated in his declaration and he now lives in the town of Cicleu as above stated - To To the 6th interrogatory he says he remembers the names of the officers as mentioned above and also Genl Gates at Albany Genl Arnold at Quebec also Col Livingston and Campbell at Glencoe but don't know whether any of them were continental officers He He said Col Campbell when he first ordered the retreat at the storming of Quebec - says he never had but one written discharge and that he had from his officers when he was discharged the first time at Albany after his return from Quebec - said discharge he lost while bathing
Asa S. Allen S Darius S. Gilman S Jonah Nutter S Judges

I Judson W Sherman clerk of the court of the said county of Albany do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the application of Zachariah Dods for a pension On the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this 12 day of February 1884 W Sherman Clk
All communications in the above matter to be directed to Daniel Raymond of Cuba Albany county NYork
Note I have informed Mr Dods the above applicant that according to the regulations of the pension office he cannot receive a pension for services rendered in the Batavian service as I understand it — but as his other services were enough to come within the provisions of the act he has thought proper to declare for the whole and submit it I am Respectfully &c Daniel Raymond
J L Edward Bogue July 17th 1884

At a Court of Common Pleas held at the Court House in the Village of Poughkeepsie in and for the County of Dutchess in the State of New York on Monday the twenty sixth day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty -
Present The Hon James Smott First Judge
Daniel O'Ver Plancke
Abraham O'Van Wyck } Equivocal Judges Thomas Sweet }
County of Dutchess for Be it remembered that on the 26 th day of June one thousand eight hundred and twenty personally appeared in the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Dutchess before the Judges thereof in open Court the said Court being a Court of Record Zachariah Dodds aged sixty three years resident in the town of Washington in the said County of Dutchess but lately resident in the town of Clinton in said County, who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath declare that he served in the Revolutionary War as follows to wit - That in the Spring of the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy five he the said Zachariah Dodds enlisted in the County of Dutchess aforesaid into the Company commanded by Captain Lewis Dubois, Col. James Clinton of the third New York Regt. for the term of six months, after faithfully serving out the full term of the said six months he again enlisted at Montreal in Canada for another term of six months under Capt Elias Pensenhoten of the said New York regt and continued in the said service longer than said term of six months and until the Army retired from Canada.
In the Spring of 1776 he again enlisted for nine months as a battaurex man under Capt John Tilmann and went in that capacity to Lake George where he was employed in carrying provisions and munitions of War to the American Army at Tienderoga - After serving out his said term as a battaurex man he again enlisted for another term of nine months in the same service under Capt Van Yeveren, which last term he also faithfully completed, continuing during that time in the service of the United States, on the

Hudsons River from Albany to Stillwater and fort Miller, until the first day of January 1778 when he was Honorably discharged at Albany in the State of New York after having been in the actual service of the United States under enlistment for more than two years and six months - He was at the capture of St Johns and Montreal Also in the battle of Long gale in Canada nine miles below dep-pervari and at the siege of Quebec under Genl Montgomery during the whole of said siege - On the twenty third day of April 1818 he made his original application hereto annexed before Martin Heermance Esquire then one of the Judges of the Court - and procured the said declaration to be forwarded to the War Office of the United States soon thereafter - That some time since & before the passage of the late law respecting pensioners, his said original declaration was returned from the said War Office, with directions to procure the further testimony of two witnesses to his said service - That in compliance of said directions he had procured the additional affidavits hereto annexed & was about to transmit the same to the said War Office when the said new law was published -
And I the said Zachariah Dodds do solemnly swear that I was a resident Citizen of the United States on the 18 th day of March 1818 and that I have not since that time, by gift sale or in any manner disposed of my property or any part thereof with intent thereby as to diminish the same as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress entitled "An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary war" passed on the 18 th day of March one thousand eight hundred and eighteen - and that I have not nor has any person in trust for me any property or securities contract or debts due to me nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed by me subscribed to wit
Real estate none; Personal estate as follows to wit

Two small pigs about five weeks old. one table. six knives & forks six tea cups and saucers one sugar bowl. one tea pot, four bowls, six old chairs. six old silver tea spoons. five iron table spoons one fire shovel & pair of tongs, one smoking horn, one old wash tub. one wooden pail. one tin pail, two tin pans. two iron kettles one tea kettle, one large spinning wheel, one axe one hoe, three augers, three chisels, two gouges & an old broad axe & hand saw Three or four old earthen plates - bedding & wearing apparel for myself, my wife and five children excepted. Three of which children are of age & capacity to work out so much as to earn their clothes but the other children and one of them is sickly are dependent on me solely for their support. - I am by trade a Wheelwright and have heretofore been able to support my family by my labour; owing to my sight failing I am unable to work any longer at my trade and am so disabled by the Rheumatism in my wrist and shoulder that I am unable to support myself and family by days work my wife is a cripple with a fever sore on her leg and is unable to walk except a little about house & is able to contribute but very little by her labour to the support of my family - and I have no means of supplying my family except by my feeble exertions at day labour public charity or the assistance of my country.
Sworn and subscribed in open Court this 28 th day of June 1820 in open Court McHenry Berkley (Depl Clerk)
Zachariah Boads
I John Johnston Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Pottawattamie in the State of Iowa do hereby certify that the foregoing schedule is a true copy of the Record of said Court, and I do further certify that it is the opinion of said Court that the said schedule is a true and full description of the property.

in the foregoing schedule is seventeen dollars and eighty cents.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court the twenty second day of June in the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty -
John L. Russell (Clerk)

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9849
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No. 9849
Isachariah Dadd
Corpl. Pa. was.
Act: June 14 th 1852
Index: Vol. 1 , Page 102
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Jeremiah Dods
Memorial
Dec. 21. 1825
Ref. to the Com ee on military pensions
April 1. 1826
Report to be in report April 1826
Provided for Bill reported.
Harbuck. 7. Pensions

To the Honorable, The Congress of the United States.
Your memorialist, Zachariah Dods, a soldier of the Revolution, begs leave to lay his case before you. He has served his country in her hour of trial and danger; he has suffered in her cause; and now, in the time of his own distress, he respectfully solicits some relief from you, her representatives.
In the spring of 1775 he enlisted at Dutchess County in the state of New York under capt. Lewis Dubois of the third Regiment. Under that capt. and his successor, Elias Van Benschoten, he served through the whole of the memorable Canada campaign, and until he was honorably discharged at Albany, in June 1776. He was at the capture of St. Johns, at Montreal, at the siege of Quebec, and in all the various battles fought in Canada while that Province was the seat of war.
It is true, that his first enlistment was for six months; but some days before that term expired, he again enlisted, at Quebec, for another period of six months, and continued for more than a year , in the actual service of the United States, without a moment's interruption.
In 1818, conceiving his case to come within the act, providing for certain persons, engaged in the land & naval service of the U.S. during the Revolutionary war, he made application to the War Department for a pension accordingly. His papers were returned, with an indorsement, that further proof of service was required. To obtain this proof, was, to him, extremely difficult. His former companions in arms were either dead, or scattered over the United States; and of all that knew him in the army, not one remained within the circle of his acquaintance, to give him the assistance of their testimony. He was old, poor and infirm; yet, with his staff in his hand, he set out; and after a painful journey of nearly 200 miles on foot, subsisting on the free offerings of the charitable, he was so fortunate as to procure the fullest evidence of his services. His papers & proofs were again forwarded to the War Office, where they now remain on file: but

hopes were blasted at once, by the construction put upon the law in question -- His claim is deemed inadmissible, because, although he was, for more than a year in continued, actual service, without a moment's interruption, that service was not performed under a single enlistment, for, at least, nine months at one time -- His case is therefore considered to be beyond the power of the War Department, and one which Legislative aid alone can reach --
Thus situated, he throws himself upon the mercy and justice of his country -- He cannot but feel persuaded, that when your honorable predecessors passed the act, they intended to reward the war-worn veteran for his services, actually rendered , and not for his enlistment. And that, if there is any ambiguity in the terms of the law, it arose from inadvertence, and not from an intention to exclude cases of this description -- Many who enlisted for, and served but nine months, have now their decline of life made comfortable by the bounty of their country; while those who served her for years, with continued and persevering devotion, and in her utmost need, must, if such cases are excluded, be doomed to drag out their poor remnant of life in the extremity of penury and wretchedness -- yet why, your Memorialist would respectfully ask, should this distinction exist? Is not the merit rather with them, whose claims would be thus rejected? A man ignorant of a soldier's life, and perhaps allured by a soldier's happenings, might enlist for nine months, or for any term, and when once bound, would be compelled to serve his time out, no matter how reluctant -- For such compulsory aid a man could claim but little merit -- But your Memorialist was free to act -- he had nearly completed his engagements -- he had promised a soldier's life -- he knew its toils, its hardships, its privations & its dangers -- It was in the depth of winter, of a Canadian winter -- he was ill-fed and poorly clothed, and worn paid -- In a few days he would have been discharged; he could then have returned with honor to all the ease, the plenty and the security of a citizen -- But his country was in distress; then needed aid, as he now needs it -- In his zeal for her cause, he forgot his past sufferings; and at a time when many availed themselves of their discharge, he continued

into his bivouac of snow, gave up all the allurements of home and embraced in their stead hunger and nakedness and all the toils and dangers of a winter's siege — And, he wants respectfully to ask that such a free will offering receive a less reward, than if a previous enlistment had compelled his stay.
To you, Representatives of his country, he makes the appeal. And shall he appeal in vain? All he asks is, that the law of 1818 may be so modified by a special or declaratory act as to embrace his case. Let not the fear that more demands may be made upon the Treasury, prejudice his petition. Few, very few in addition probably now remain to claim the reward for their services — But even should the class of applicants be more numerous than is apprehended; in our happy country, where justice is the nation's motto, the numbers who may rightly claim it, surely will not be urged as a reason for withholding a merited reward. The nation has shown to the world, in relation to its illustrious guest, that republics are not always ungrateful. Let them then, not stop short, when a humble citizen is the applicant. He asks but a mere pittance — an annual sum, less than the cost of the slightest ornament that adorns your Hall, would rescue him from misery and want.
Infirmities, caused by hardships in the service of his country, have nearly incapacitated him for labor — His aged wife has been for years, confined to her bed, by an incurable disease; and cannot assist him. Animated by a soldier's pride, he has thus far, by straining every nerve, been able to procure a scanty & wretched subsistence, without the aid of charity. But nature cannot long sustain such exertions. At the age of seventy one Worn down with infirmities, if the nation affords him no relief, he must sink to the condition of a public pauper —
All who know him can testify that his poverty is his misfortune, and not his fault. The sacrifices made by his family & himself for their country, have given the colour to his fate. His father fell in Braddock's memorable defeat, & left him an infant. His own constitution was broken down by the cold and

suffering which he endured before Bunkerhill. That campaign fixed upon him a severe rheumatic affection for life; and he is now nearly a cripple from its effects -
Allow then, Representatives of your country, the poor soldier's claim - Permit him respectfully to urge it as his right. Dr. goaded to desperation by the miseries of his situation, he prefers his suit too warmly, forgives the officer; for his wants are imperative, and urge him to this last appeal. All he asks is but little - scarcely exceeding the depreciation of his pay. That little he cannot wait long. Soon will he cease to be a burden upon your justice, or generosity; but if you grant his prayer, that little will bring comparative comfort and happiness into his humble dwelling; will cheer the remnant of life left to him and his decrepit partner; and their daily supplications shall arise, for the prosperity of their beloved and grateful country -
Zachariah Doods
25- Zachariah Doods
Memorial
Dec. 21. 1825
Ref. to the Com. on Military Pensions
April 2. 1826
Ref. to the Com. on Military Pensions
Enclosed for Bill reported.
March 7. 1826

Supplementary affidavit.
Dutchess County To Henry Dodge of the town of Poughkeepsie in the County of Dutchess being duly sworn cross-exam- ined deposes and says that in July 1775 this deponent enlisted at Dutchess County in the State of New York in Capt Andrew Billings C o . Col James Clinton 3 New York Reg t & in that capacity went to Canada in the Campaign of that year: after the taking of Montreal in November of that year, there was a new enlistment of the troops untill the 15 th of April 1776. and altho' all of the troops of the said third Reg t then in service re-enlisted at that time, although the period of their former enlistment did not expire untill about the 31 st of Dec r of that year - All those who enlisted at this period immediately commenced their second period of service out a moment's interruption, & were in continued service untill on or about the first of June 1776 when they were discharged at Albany in the State of New York: making one continued period of service untill the day of discharge, altho' under two enlistments - That at the above mentioned period of enlistment, this deponent enlisted into the Poughkeepsie Company by Capt Elias Van Benschoten 8 th New York Reg t as a lieutenant, & three days thereafter was promoted to a lieutenant in Capt Thomas De Witt's C o same Reg t , & served in said last Company untill the final discharge of the troops at Albany as above mentioned - That this deponent further says that whereas he had been in the service of the General Dodge the affiant for a person named in the papers annexed, and knows that said individual was in the service of the Continental Congress in the year 1776.

of then enrolled at the time of the said second enlistment - And that if said Zackariah did enlist again at that time as this deponent very sincerely believes he did, the service of said Zackariah was one continued service without interruption until the discharge at Albany as aforesaid - Given this 12 th Oct 1820 before me Henry Dodge JAMES SWIFT first judge of R. & S. C.
Dutchess County ss Zackariah Dods the applicant for a pension named in the papers annexed being duly sworn according to law makes a further & supplementary affidavit & says, that he observes in his former affidavit it is stated that he this deponent, after faithfully serving out the full term of the said six months, he again enlisted to whereas in truth & in fact this deponent made his second enlistment in Nov ember 1775, at the time mentioned in the above affidavit of Henry Dodge, although his period of first service had not yet expired at the time, And that the first affidavit made by this deponent was drawn in such a manner that this deponent supposed it meant & would carry the time of - And this deponent further says that from the day of his first enlistment to the day of his discharge at Albany in June 1776, he was in one continued service of the United States, in arms & subject to duty without a moment's interruption, for more than twelve months at one time. Given this 12 th Oct 1820 before me Zackariah Dods JAMES SWIFT first judge of R. & S. C.

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Jeremiah Dods bonds more than one year, continued bonds in the line, as will appear by the supplementary affidavits annexed Subtle to Will Thornton Esq. July 20. 1832

Leahariah Dods claiming from his services in the late revolutionary war the benefit of a pension - on and with whom I have had conversation here related certain circumstances which occurred in the course of the winter campaign of 1775 and 1776 before the walls of Quebec where  where I was then  then to believe that he was there, belonging to the company of Captain Shiner's New Hampshire Battalion of which I was first Lieutenant
Atkins
Nov. Decm. 17. 1819

State of New York Rensselaer County } ss.
James Morrison & Abraham Van Dypael being duly sworn deposeth & saith, that they were personally acquainted with LaFrenah Dads, in the year One thousand seven hundred and fifty six, during the Revolutionary war with Great Britain, that he said that was under the command of General Montgomery in the expedition against Quebec, that these deponents have a perfect recollection of seeing the said Dads at St. Johns, the surrender of Montreal, and at the Siege of Quebec and that he served in that expedition more than twelve months and that they perfectly recollect that he served in Bennington's company at Quebec - James Morrison mark. Abraham Van Dypael mark.
Subscribed & sworn to. this first day of May. 1820. before me.
Ebenezer Wilson Jun. One of the Justices of the peace for Rensselaer County.
I, the undersigned Clerk of the County of Rensselaer do hereby certify that Ebenezer Wilson, Esq. whose signature is affixed to the above Certificate of Affidavit was at the time the same was executed, a Just ice of the peace for the County of Rensselaer & further that I am acquainted with the hand writing of the said Ebenezer & am satisfied that his signature to the above Affidavit is in his own proper hand writing. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my name and affixed the seal of the said Court to this first day of May 1820 - Joseph D. Selden Clerk

State of New York County of Dutchess
On this twenty third day of April 1878. before me the sub- scribed, one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in & for the County of Dutchess, personally appeared Jeremiah D. Dods aged sixty one years, resi- dent in the town of Clinton in said County of Dutch- ess, who being by me first duly sworn and being duly sworn, made the following de- claration in order to obtain the provision made by the Act of Congress entitled "An Act to provide for certain persons who were in the land or naval service of the United States in the Revolu- tionary war. That he the said Jeremiah Dods in the spring of the year 1775 enlisted in the county of Dutchess, State of New York, in the company com- manded by Captain Lewis Dubois, Col James Clinton, of the third New York Regiment, for the term of six months . After serving out the full term of said six months , he again enlisted at Montreal under Captain Elias Benschoten, of the same Regiment, for another period of six months , and was in service beyond the said term, until the army retired from Quebec. In the spring of 1776. he again enlisted for nine months , as a volunteer man under Captain John Titmire, & took in that capacity to Lake George. He was at that place employed in car- rying provisions & munitions of war to the American army at Ticonderoga. And at the end of his term

he again enlisted in the same service under Capt. Van Voorhies for nine months longer, com- missioned in the service of the United States, on  the day of his discharge from Albany & P'keepsie & Fort Miller  March 1865 until the first day of January 1878. when his term having expired he was honorably discharged at Albany in the State of New York after having been in the actual service of the United States, under enlistment more than two years & six months that he was at the capture of St. Johns & Montreal, assisting in both. He was in the battle of Long-Eake, in Canada, 9 miles below P'keepsie; also at Beekmantown under Genl. Montgomery during the whole of the siege. And that he is in reduced circumstances, & stands in need of the assistance of his country for support, and that he has no other evidence now in his power of his said services.
J. Martin Newman. Judge V. A. Jones, do certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said Jacobus Van Voorhies was in the Revolutionary war, as stated in the preceding declaration against the Government. And I have taken the pro- ceedings of the court & have left one to the Department for the information of the same.

I Jacob Van Riper Clerk of the County of Dutchess in the State of New York do hereby certify that Martin Durmance before whom the preceding Affidavit was taken was at the time of taking the same a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of said County acting under the authority of this State & that the above is his signature.
In witness whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of said Court this twenty seventh day of April one thousand eight hundred and eighteen.
Jacob Van Riper